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Cote D'Ivoire: Power production capacity reaches 2,000MW

Ivory Coast’s electricity generation capacity has reached new highs of 2,000 megawatts, following the inauguration of a new thermal power plant on Wednesday.

CIPREL, Ivory Coast’s electricity generation company, and a subsidiary of Emerging Capital Partners, completed a project on Wednesday to increase its total capacity by 234 megawatts (MW) to a total of 556 MW in a bid to meet fast-growing domestic and regional demand, reports Reuters.

The 225 billion $382.15 million project, which includes a steam and a heat turbine has taken over two years for compeltion and makes CIPREL the country’s biggest independent producer of electricity.